The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-11-03

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gagged as chairman of the Phosphate
Investigating Committee. The Com.
mittee will probably conclude lis work
in a day or two. Their report will be
submitted to the coming session of the
Legislature.
Beast Butler announces publicly
that he will vote the Democratic ticket
in Massachusetts this year.
So A prominent physician Of. Dubuque
thinks the turned down kerosene lamp is
the prime and common cause of dipth.
liberia.
"a restaurant has been opened in
London for exclusive patronage Of people
who are troubled with corpulence, the
food being entirely antifat.
Henry Wilson, once Vice President
1of the United States, was a shoemaker
by trade, and the cobblers of Natick are
about to erect a monument to his memo.
It is reported that a merchant in
I ELaurens has received an order from a
New York dealer for five hundred barrels
of sorghum syrup. Ifhe gets this he will
tnrn out about FIVE thousand barrels of
New Orleans molasses which will be sold
to Southern farmers at Is to 40 cents q
gallon.
Saturday, November 26, has been
appointed the day for the special election
to decide whether Atlanta shall continue
as prohibition city. The registration
books are now open and the voters are
registering every day. Both sides are
actively at work, and the election promi-
sses to be one of great interest.
The Greenville Enterprise and
Mountaineer says, the proposition to
organize a savings bank in that city has
been consummated by the election of
Mfs3sX Norwood as president and MIR.
Frank Hammond yica;president.
The capitol stock is twenty-five tno1sa5l6
dollars, one.half of which has been paid
into the bank. The new bank will com.
mence business this week.
Eighteen years ago, when the air
brake was tried, it required eighteen
seconds to apply it to a train 1000 feet
long. Four years later the time was 70.
duced four seconds. Recent expert.
ments with the air brake on freight trains
show that it can be applied to every car
in train of that length running at the
rate Of forty miles an hour, and that this
train can be stopped within 500 feet, or
one.four.h Off its own length, and all this
without any serious jolting.
At a funeral near Sycamore, Ohio,
the other day, the team attached to the
hearse ran away and the vehicle was re.
duced almost to kindling wood. The
coffin was dashed to the ground, the lid
torn off and the corpse rolled into the
ditch by the road side. Other teams
took fright and q general panic ensued.
Women tainted, men jumped from the
carriages, wagons we're overturned, horses
became entangled in general wreck,
and several persons were more or less
serious injured.
For years huge column of black
smoke by day and lurid flames by night
rolled up from a dense Florida swamp,
ssbn. no one penetrated the swamp far
enough to discover the cause. Recently
a young man noticed that the smoke and
fame had disappeared, and he determin.
ed to try and find the spot where they
had been. With great labor he worked
his way into the swamp until he came
upon alarge mound of rent and shatter.
ed rocks, which looked as though they
had been subjected to terrific upbeaval.
Their under sides were covered with SCOT,
and SO we're the creviees between, but no
smoke or heat Was discovered. The ex-
plorer decided that the fire was caused by
the burning of natural oil we'll, which
had burned itselfout.
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The following is the leading edito.
rial in recent issue of the Mississippi
South: Son Thursday Dight, while we
were writing an editorial on the financial
condition Of the country, some fend in
human shape threw a brick through our
window and struck US on our head. We
fell to our floor and lost our senses. How
long We remained in our condition of
Inconsistencies we know not. The first
thing we remember was being taken up
by Major Gribper. our good friend. We
were taken to drug store, where our
wound was dressed. Our wife and our
children soon came, and we were taken
to our home. We are naturally indig-
nant over this cowardly attack upon US,
and we offer a years subscription to our
paper to the man who discovers who it
was that hit US"
Women dressed as men have repeat
edly shown their ability to retain their
disguise unpenetrated and unsuspected
for years, but it is not so easy for man
posing as woman to deceive the quick
sight and almost unfailing instructive